Shawn Stockman Quotes
I think, for all of us, enjoying time with our kids and our families helps us stay grounded.

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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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My motto is: more good times.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.
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I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
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I think, for all of us, enjoying time with our kids and our families helps us stay grounded.